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Down To The Wire Bernard Ashley

Down To The Wire By Bernard Ashley

Down To The Wire by Bernard Ashley


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Summary

Just after rescuing the home secretary's daughter from kidnappers, Ben Maddox stumbles across another human interest story. Soon Ben finds himself thrust, full throttle, into an adventure about a child protegee, set against a background of politics and child trafficking - and this time there in no going back.

Down To The Wire Summary

Down To The Wire by Bernard Ashley

Not long out of the woods from rescuing the home secretary's daughter from kidnappers, Ben Maddox is on his way to the Ivory Coast to report on a fragile political situation and break-out by a separatist group. Whilst there, he stumbles across another human interest story in the proposed signing of a young African football star for Spurs. Soon Ben finds himself thrust, full throttle, into a page-turning adventure about a child protegee, set against a background of politics and child trafficking - and this time there in no going back.

About Bernard Ashley

Bernard Ashley is one of the top writers for teenagers today. Drawing on his experience as a headteacher in a South London school he writes exciting, hard-hitting stories for the young adult reader plus picture book and younger fiction texts. Bernard's first novel, The Trouble with Donovan Croft won the 'Other Award', an alternative to the Carnegie Award and since then Bernard has written extensively both for television and the children's book market. His adaptation of his own novel Dodgem won the Royal Television Society Award for the Best Children's Entertainment Programme. Bernard has written a number of successful novels for Orchard Books. Tiger Without Teeth was chosen as the Guardian's Children's Book of the Week, Little Soldier about the gang-run estates of inner London was shortlisted for both the Carnegie and Guardian Fiction Award and Revenge House a hard-hitting crime thriller are all typical of Bernard's highly charged, gritty approach. Bernard Ashley lives in South East London only a street or so from where he was born. During his time as a teacher and headteacher he worked in Kent, Hertfordshire, Newham and Greenwich. Visit Bernard Ashley at: www.bashley.com

Additional information

GOR003856592
9781846160592
1846160596
Down To The Wire by Bernard Ashley
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Hachette Children's Group
20060907
256
N/A
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